By Michael Orbach
Issue of September 11, 2009 / 22 Elul 5769
After being targeted by repeated lawsuits, the Lawrence School District is going on the offensive.
In a memorandum filed …
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Tanach study program launching in Five Towns
By Michael Orbach
Issue of September 11, 2009 / 22 Elul 5769
Is seven-and-a-half-years too long to wait? The Young Israel of North Woodmere …
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Perhaps one of the most nefarious myths of World War II was that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was the one who liberated the Jews from the Nazi evil and ended the Holocaust.
I call this …
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Issue of September 11, 2009 / 22 Elul 5769
Defending Kennedy
To the Editor:
I am writing to comment on the Kosher Bookworm’s article: “The Kennedy legacy: American tragedy or …
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Issue of September 11, 2009 / 22 Elul 5769
A lot has happened in the eight years since Sept. 11, 2001. Children too young to remember much about that day entered high school this week. Two wars …
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In close to 20 years of “lawyering” I would estimate that I have appeared in front of at least 100 different judges. Municipal court, civil court, Supreme Court, district court or the appellate …
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The High Holidays coincide with the Muslim holiday of Ramadan this year. Judaism follows the lunar calendar and adds a month to compensate for leap years. The Hijrah, the Islamic calendar of Islam, …
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By Rafael Medoff
Issue of September 11, 2009 / 22 Elul 5769
The same week that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez denounced Israel as “genocidal,” he invited a genuine perpetrator of …
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By Matt Gaffney
Issue of Sept. 11, 2009 / 22 Elul 5769
Across
1 Larry Gelbart's pride
5 Hoover et al.
9 Use an Uzi
14 Fashionable periodical
15 Charles Lamb's pen name
16 …
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In the context of thoughts on why “Tisha B’Av precedes Va’etchanan,” I raised the halakhic discussion point that Nitzavim is always read before Rosh Hashana (Shulchan Arukh 428). The Pri …
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